“The historian Yuval Noah Harari has warned that we are no longer merely dealing with artificial intelligence, but with something closer to alien intelligence. Systems that do not share our biology, our slowness, our need for meaning, but nonetheless shape what we see, what we believe, and eventually who we become.

Information can now be generated, altered, personalized, and erased at a scale the human mind was never designed to navigate. Reality itself begins to feel provisional.

Books resist this.

A printed page does not update itself overnight. It cannot quietly change its mind. Its errors and insights remain fixed, accountable. A book is a moral object in this way. It stands behind what it says.”

—Before the Doors Close for Good, Weiss Journal